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EEOC issues new guidance memorandum on employee criminal records by Paul Ross
EEOC issues new guidance memorandum on employee criminal records McAfee & Taft EmployerLINC Employment Law Update -April 26, 2012 By Paul Ross On April 25, 2012, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a memorandum outlining its
Updated: 04/27/2012 08:03P
Flatlined bikers fighting peace bonds
Police and prosecutors are employing a section of the Criminal Code rarely used in Manitoba to slap peace bonds on nine men with ties to the biker gang and its "friend" club, the Redlined, as part of Project Flatlined, a drug trafficking probe nearly a
Updated: 04/27/2012 07:44P
Possible injury won't scare away real-life superheroes from fighting crime in
Mike Dunn, a full-time professor at Cooley Law School and former defense attorney, said intervening as a crime fighter could find someone in a mess of legal trouble, much like Bee Sting finds himself in. Michigan law only allows people to use lethal
Updated: 04/27/2012 07:35P
Possible injury won't scare away real-life superheroes from fighting crime in
Mike Dunn, a full-time professor at Cooley Law School and former defense attorney, said intervening as a crime fighter could find someone in a mess of legal trouble, much like Bee Sting finds himself in. Michigan law only allows people to use lethal
Updated: 04/27/2012 07:35P
Do our gun control laws go far enough?
THE spate of drive-by shootings in Sydney is not the result of insufficient gun control laws, or even criminal law, in this state. It is already illegal to shoot an unregistered firearm in a built-up area without regard to human life.
Updated: 04/27/2012 07:29P
Do our gun control laws go far enough?
THE spate of drive-by shootings in Sydney is not the result of insufficient gun control laws, or even criminal law, in this state. It is already illegal to shoot an unregistered firearm in a built-up area without regard to human life.
Updated: 04/27/2012 07:28P
No to double standards on global thugs
This debate has been revived by the conviction this week of former Liberian President Charles Taylor by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, for arming Sierra Leone rebels in exchange for
Updated: 04/27/2012 06:14P
Attorney General promises help in stopping crimes
Wisconsin Attorney General JB Van Hollen pledged the state Department of Justice's help in combating crime, especially crime against young people, and stressed the importance of cooperation between the state and tribal governments Wednesday at the
Updated: 04/27/2012 05:52P
Opinion: In the Charles Taylor conviction, a warning to other national leaders
This fed a certain sense that the Nuremberg principles were wishful thinking, and that political leaders were beyond the reach of international criminal law. The creation of international tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda by the United Nations
Updated: 04/27/2012 05:48P
NDP wants new cross-border police law studied separately
A US Coast Guard ship, for example, could enforce Canadian law in Canadian waters with an RCMP officer on board. Now, the government wants to make this project permanent by amending the RCMP Act, the Criminal Code, and the Customs Act. The changes were
Updated: 04/27/2012 05:48P
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